Gun Control & RKBA

The FBI defines a mass shooting as 4 or more. Why the revision of terms?

Why 2007?

Over an 8 year period that is less than 100 per year. How many questionable shootings are perpetrated by the police each year? If we're going to abolish things based on statistics we should abolish the police -- but then who would enforce gun control?

What the article is speaking to is essentially negligent


That would be meaningful except --

1) Not all self-defense involves the discharge of a weapon, let alone actually shooting and/or killing someone. Considering the CDC estimates there are as many as 70,000 DGUs annually (or more) what we're seeing is that whose who carry for protection want that protection but they are not eager to shoot and kill.

2) The stat is dubious because the next statement reads --


"because they have already been shown to manipulate statistics to paint the conclusion they need for their political advocacy, i.e. redefining mass-shooting from 4 down to 3 to elevate the number of mass-shootings," is how the sentence should have read. If the tally is incomplete it is because the VPC finds the record to be too inconvenient to its narrative.

The VPC goes on to further lie that funding on research is blocked. No, it is not blocked. The CDC and FBI both conduct research in this area, the VPC is just stomping its feet that they cannot get public money to lobby for laws that affect the public.